[lkb] Re: Graphical LKB on Mac OSX <--IT works !!

[Roussanka Loukanova]

John, thanks a lot! I've got it on my G4 Powerbook.
Life is nice when things work.

Best Regards,
Roussanka

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, John Carroll wrote:

> Roussanka,
>
> Yes, there is a newer version of Macintosh OSX LKB available, at 
> http://lingo.stanford.edu/ftp/stable/
>
> Installation instructions are at 
> http://wiki.delph-in.net/moin/LkbInstallation . With this new version, you no 
> longer have to do the (defun lkb::lkb-tmp-dir nil #P"Macintosh 
> HD:Users:myname:Documents:tmp:") thing described below.
>
> John
>
> On 26 Aug 2005, at 09:55, Roussanka Loukanova wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Is there a newer version of LKB for MAC OSX? I'm starting again a course 
>> with LKB and it oud be good to get the latest version on my MAC. 
>> LKB-5.4beta did finely for small grammars with little MRS, but I would 
>> like to try some more.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Roussanka
>> 
>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, John Carroll wrote:
>> 
>> [...]
>>>>>  John Carroll <J.A.Carroll at sussex.ac.uk> has kindly provided a 
>>>>> working image to me last year that is still available at
>>>>> http://www.informatics.susx.ac.uk/research/nlp/carroll/LKB-5.4beta- 
>>>>> runtime.sitx
>>> 
>>> Erich,
>>> 
>>> Thanks for pointing Brian at this Mac version. Sometime soon I will get 
>>> a link to it added to the LKB web pages. Roussanka: there's the address 
>>> above for you to download it. Some additional info below.
>>> 
>>> I'm not entirely happy with this version, since at least for me it 
>>> sometimes starts up as an old-style System 9 application (with degraded 
>>> performance) inside OS X -- I think this happens if Classic is running 
>>> at the time. I'd like to fix this, and will let you know if I do.
>>> 
>>> John
>>> 
>>> ------
>>> Use Stuffit Expander to unpack the .sitx file, or just double-click it. 
>>> Double-click on the file LKB-5.4beta-runtime to start up the LKB. It's 
>>> set to run in 400MB memory, but you could probably reduce this if you're 
>>> just running the LKB with small grammars.
>>> 
>>> Immediately after the LKB starts, redefine the function lkb::lkb-tmp-dir 
>>> -- to something like the following:
>>> 
>>> (defun lkb::lkb-tmp-dir nil #P"Macintosh 
>>> HD:Users:myname:Documents:tmp:")
>>> 
>>> (type this in the "Listener" window and hit return; you will get a 
>>> warning which is fine). This assumes your hard disk is called "Macintosh 
>>> HD" and your username is "myname". You also need to create this folder 
>>> ("tmp" in your Documents folder).
>>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Roussanka
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>>                   Computational Linguistics
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Roussanka
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Postal Address:   Roussanka Loukanova
                   Computational Linguistics
                   Uppsala University
                   P.O. Box 635
                   SE - 751 26 Uppsala
                   Sweden
Office Address:   room 9-2031 SVC, Villav. 4
Tel:   +46 18 471 1342 (office)
        +46 18 750 0340
Fax:   +46 18 471 1416
email:  rloukano at stp.ling.uu.se
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